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HOUSE AT DURSLEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE

P. MORLEY-HORDER, ARCHITECT

dows are fitted with iron casements and tead iights.
The little gatehouse at the entrance to the forecourt
adds to the picturesqueness of the house consider-
abiy. The garden is being laid out in terraces,
and the forecourt and retaining walls to the
sunk-garden, near the billiard-room, wiH be carried
out in the old walling stone used for the house.
The third of Mr. Morley-Horder's houses shown
here is a commodious house situated on a hne
site at Bexhitl-on-Sea, with a splendid view of the
sea. The house, unusually long in plan, is arranged
so that all the rooms face south, with a long corri-
dor on the north. The rooms are large, and the

house was built with a view ot entertaining guests
during the summer, especially during the cricket
week. The long play room (46 feet by 19 feet) at
the western end of the house, which opens on to
the verandah, is an unusual adjunct to a house of
this type. This room is used for small dramatic
performances, and it will be noted that there is an
outside approach with lavatories and small retiring
room in connection with it. There was a smal)
weather-boarded farmhouse on the site, and this
has been retained and connected up to the house
as a servants' wing, the little enclosed garden of
this being retained for the servants' use also. The


PLAN OF HOUSE AT DURSLEY, GLOS.

P. MORLEY-HORDER, ARCHITECT